Not so long ago, the entire continent of Africa was written off by the business world as a place too risky to invest in. However, mobile technology has completely changed the African narrative. Africa is now the world’s second largest mobile phone market and…

There’s still five days left on Paul-Miki Akpablie’s Indiegogo campaign, but he’s not sweating it because the $5,000 funding goal for his company Kadi Energy has already been met. Part of the appeal for Kadi Energy stems from the fact that Akpablie wanted to…

Alex Gorosh is a filmmaker with a lot of gadgets. He wondered one day: truly, where do these gadgets go to die? Is there really an electronic afterlife? Here is what happened when Gorosh decided to follow his gadgets all the way to Agbogbloshie, Ghana,…

According to Stephen Gyasi-Kwaw, who organized the first Startup Weekend in Ghana, the Ghana government will be launching a $10 million fund for local startups within the next few months. When Gyasi-Kwaw arrived in Ghana in 2008 from the UK, he says, no politicians…